Improvement in coftn-shellers



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' G. GOEWEY. CORN SHELLER.

No 44,768. Patented Oct. 1.8, 1864.

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G. GOEWEY. GORN SHELLER.

Patented 001;. 18, 1864.

I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I GEORGE G-OEWEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF .AND WILLIAM BAILEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-SHELLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,768, dated October 18, 1864.

reference being had to the annexed drawings,

making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l. is a top viewof the machine, the

hopper and a portion vofthe outer frame be in g cut away; Fig. 2, ahorizontal section Fig. 3, a vertical section on the line A B of Fig. 2; Fig. 4. a top view ot' one ofthe springs and otl a portion of the inner frame; Fig. 5, a side view ot' the concave Fig. 6, a front view,

showing also the mode of applying the spring E thereto, Fig. 7 a section of the concave on Fig. S is a top view of the line U l.) off-Fig. 6. y the inncr'frame and the springs. Fig. 9 is a side view of the side T U, Fig. 8, ot' theinner frame. Fig. I() is a similar view ot' the side W X, Fig. 8, of the inner frame.

The drawings are on a scale ot' about one to t'our.

E, Figs. 1, 2, and' 3,'is the outer frame ofthe machine.

parts'of the machine.

G G are the sl1ellingrollers,each formed by uniting the frusta ot' two cones at their g bases. They are provided with teeth set in diagonal lines.

Power is applied tothe drivigwheel J by nieans of the crank N, and .the gearing described causes the roller G' to turn with about twice the speed with which the roller G turns.

O, Fig. 3, is the hopper. It is divided at the bottom, asshown, by a low partition, P, extending down to a vpoint or edge between y,the apexes ot' the rollers.

. Q Q are two tiat steel springs, each of which vrests loosely in slots, the one in e and f, the

allows the upper ends ot' the cencaves to yield more freely than the lower ends. They thus facilita-te the admission ot' the ears of corn.

The outer frame and the hopper might be made ot wood, but I prefer to make the machine throughout of castiron. The inner frame is cast in a single piece. The ends X X and lY Yi, Fig. 3, of the outer frame are each cast ina single piece. The two side are also cast separately. The rollers l cast g hollow in two parts, the dividing line being at F, Figs. 2, 3, 8, 9, l0, is the inner frame, which gives support to the several working l -shaped as shown.

,gitudinallyg so that when the working parts the apex ot each roller. The two parts, when placed together on theshaft, form the roller The sides are slotted lonare in place in their bearings in the inner frame, and the sides are applied, projecting parts of' the inner frame rest in the last-mentioned slots, 'as' is shown in Fig. 2.

The drawings represent a double i machine. In single machines I employ but one concavel and the accompanying spring, and make the 3 rollers each -ot the shape of a single frust'um.

'lhey have ridges orteeth g set diagonally, as shown., so as to correspond or be in a line with the rows of teeth on the shelling-rollers.

I l are the roller shafts, which rest at their ends on the inner frame, the one at a and b,

f ers G, in the manner and for the purpose subthe other at c and d, as shown in Fig. 2.

.l is the driving wheel, geared into the pinion K, which is on one end of the shaft I.

L is a cogwhcel on the other end of the i wheel M, on one end of the shaft I.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desircto secure by Letters latenl, is. l i

The arrangement and combination of the inner frame, F, with one or more yielding concaves, H, a spring or springs, Q,and the roll stanti-all y as described.

GEORGE GOEWEY.

Witnesses:

Unas. B. HELFENSTEIN, JAMES MCGALEM. 

